Census Receives Braze Torchie Award at Forge 2023

The Torchie Awards recognize Braze customers and partners who are building the future of customer engagement

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Census, the leading Data Activation and Reverse ETL platform, today announced that it has been awarded a Braze Torchie Award for Technology Partner of the Year at Forge, the annual Braze customer conference taking place on October 16-17 in New York. The 2023 Torchie Awards recognize leading brands and individuals from Braze customers and partners that are building the future of customer engagement by leveraging technology and forward-looking strategies to better engage and serve their audiences.

The Torchie Award for Technology Partner of the Year recognizes a technology partner that is effectively showcasing the power of Braze in tandem with their technology.

“This year’s Torchie Awards recognize leaders who have once again surprised and impressed us with the level of creativity and innovation they have brought to their brands and to the customer engagement category,” said Astha Malik, Chief Business Officer for Braze. “Our customers continue to prove that with the right mix of technology, data, and creativity, good ideas can deliver great results. We are proud to support and recognize our community’s achievements in creating captivating and sophisticated cross-channel engagement strategies that build loyalty and retention with consumers.”

“Consumers today expect brands to provide seamless cross-channel experiences that are personalized and memorable at every touchpoint,” said Boris Jabes, CEO at Census. “We are honored to be recognized for our efforts in empowering enterprises like Canva to activate personalized customer journeys for over 125 million monthly users with their customer data in Snowflake. Census enables Canva to unify and activate all their customer data, then create audiences and push machine learning outputs into Braze for real-time targeted engagement.”

This year Braze received nearly 200 total Torchie Award submissions spanning eight award categories such as: Campaign of the Year, Marketing Leader of the Year, Collaborative Team of the Year, Bonfire Community Leader, Rising Marketing Star, Creative Excellence Award, Solutions Partner of the Year, and Technology Partner of the Year. Award entries were judged and evaluated by a panel of Braze executives and industry experts. Submissions were evaluated for their recency, creativity, innovation, and overall business impact amongst other factors.

Read the full list of Torchie Award recipients here. Learn more about Forge here and join the Braze Bonfire community here.

About Census

Census is the #1 Data Activation platform that helps enterprises like Sonos, Canva, Masterclass, and Notion revolutionize data-driven marketing. By transforming the cloud data warehouse into a Composable CDP, it unites every team around a single source of truth. Census empowers marketing teams to launch faster, create more intelligent campaigns, and decrease customer acquisition costs with a visual point-and-click Audience Hub and Reverse ETL connectors to hundreds of marketing and business tools. For more information, visit getcensus.com.

About Braze

Braze is a leading comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies. Braze has been recognized as one of Fortune’s 2023 Best Workplaces in New York, 2023 UK Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place to Work, and Fortune’s 2022 Best US Workplaces in Technology. The company is headquartered in New York with 10+ offices across North America, Europe, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.